Popular culture is fraught with horror stories too real for our own imaginations. We face these fears in a cold, dark theater, because they’re a little warmer and brighter than our own thoughts. We face them by jamming stringed pellets into our ears because artists understand pain deeper than we think we’ll ever have to. And we face them by preparing for the worst in our own lives, so that some realistically evil thing like foreclosure or sickness can pale in comparison to what we see or hear trudging sliding through our culture every day. Like Dorothy’s family closing the hatch mere moments after they open it or Leo doing that thing with the dining room chair and the bathtub, we sometimes deal with the inevitable by preparing for the worst.
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